Re: [PATCH] scsi: aic7xxx: Fix unintended sign extension issue

2018-10-25 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 16:13 +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > In the expression "ahc_inb(ahc, port+3) << 24", the initial value is > a u8, but is promoted to a signed int, then sign-extended to > uint64_t. Why is this, that's highly non intuitive? The compiler is supposed to

Re: [PATCH] scsi: aic7xxx: Fix unintended sign extension issue

2018-10-25 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 16:13 +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > In the expression "ahc_inb(ahc, port+3) << 24", the initial value is > a u8, but is promoted to a signed int, then sign-extended to > uint64_t. Why is this, that's highly non intuitive? The compiler is supposed to